Charles Thistlethwaite
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Signal: CharlesT.100
Mostly #climatechange, #adaptation, and #environmentaljustice.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that weather-related disasters have caused 250 million internal displacements globally over the past decade, with #climatechange exacerbating the challenges for those already displaced by conflict.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
UN warns of millions displaced by climate change as COP30 opens in Brazil
Weather-related disasters have forced a quarter of a billion people to flee in the last decade, says UNHCR.
www.aljazeera.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that weather-related disasters have caused 250 million internal displacements globally over the past decade, with #climatechange exacerbating the challenges for those already displaced by conflict.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Octavia Butler's 1993 science-fiction novel, "Parable of the Sower," envisioned a mid-2020s United States warped by global warming, authoritarian governance by corrupt companies, strict state borders, a widened wealth gap, and massive wildfires contributing to California's decline.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Octavia Butler's 1993 science-fiction novel, "Parable of the Sower," envisioned a mid-2020s United States warped by global warming, authoritarian governance by corrupt companies, strict state borders, a widened wealth gap, and massive wildfires contributing to California's decline.
U.C. Davis forest ecologist Hugh Safford discovered Jeffrey pines thriving at elevations over 11,000 feet in California's Sierra Nevada, significantly higher than their typical range, suggesting the species is responding to a warming climate.
www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
An Extreme Tree Hunt in the Sierra Nevada
Across 24 peaks and 240 miles through the Sierra Nevada, a UC Davis team searches for high-altitude Jeffrey pines to learn how climate change is reshaping forests.
www.ucdavis.edu
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
U.C. Davis forest ecologist Hugh Safford discovered Jeffrey pines thriving at elevations over 11,000 feet in California's Sierra Nevada, significantly higher than their typical range, suggesting the species is responding to a warming climate.
www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
MSF has urged the #COP30 conference to prioritize the health needs of vulnerable communities as they have seen the increasing of #climatechange causing complex trauma, displacement, and erosion of resilience.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/cop30...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/cop30...
COP30 must address health needs of communities affected by the climate emergency
At the global climate summit in Brazil, MSF calls for local and Indigenous voices to be heard
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
MSF has urged the #COP30 conference to prioritize the health needs of vulnerable communities as they have seen the increasing of #climatechange causing complex trauma, displacement, and erosion of resilience.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/cop30...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/cop30...
Seven years after the Camp Fire, the Paradise ridge in Butte County, California is regrowing with a diverse mix of returning vegetation, including native conifers and opportunistic invasive species, highlighting the challenges in managing these new vegetation patterns on vacant lots.
Regrowth, fire risk on Paradise ridge
Conifers are coming back, and residents are full swing at rebuilding. As more life returns to the ridge, agencies and landowners are working to keep up fire safety during this period of regrowth.
www.chicoer.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Seven years after the Camp Fire, the Paradise ridge in Butte County, California is regrowing with a diverse mix of returning vegetation, including native conifers and opportunistic invasive species, highlighting the challenges in managing these new vegetation patterns on vacant lots.
Seven years after the Camp Fire, rural Butte County communities like Concow, Yankee Hill, and Pulga are still grappling with its devastating aftermath, reflecting on harrowing escapes and acts of heroism.
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/08/r...
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/08/r...
Rural communities reflect on the Camp Fire after seven years
When Emilia Erickson fled her home during the 2008 Butte Lightning Complex fires while six months pregnant, she had no idea that it would only be a practice run for when she once again evacuated in…
www.chicoer.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Seven years after the Camp Fire, rural Butte County communities like Concow, Yankee Hill, and Pulga are still grappling with its devastating aftermath, reflecting on harrowing escapes and acts of heroism.
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/08/r...
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/08/r...
In #Australia, a survey found 40% of women without children expressed hesitation about having children due to concerns about #climatechange.
Half of all Australians are very or extremely concerned about global heating, with two in five believing the climate will be much hotter by 2050.
Half of all Australians are very or extremely concerned about global heating, with two in five believing the climate will be much hotter by 2050.
Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change
Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In #Australia, a survey found 40% of women without children expressed hesitation about having children due to concerns about #climatechange.
Half of all Australians are very or extremely concerned about global heating, with two in five believing the climate will be much hotter by 2050.
Half of all Australians are very or extremely concerned about global heating, with two in five believing the climate will be much hotter by 2050.
#Climatechange disasters disproportionately affect persons with disabilities, as tragically illustrated by instances during floods and heatwaves where people with disabilities faced increased mortality and severe challenges in evacuations.
euobserver.com/health-and-s...
euobserver.com/health-and-s...
Why climate solutions need to be disability friendly
It is undeniable that policymakers are responsible for involving persons with disabilities in solutions to address climate change. However, the climate and disability movements must present a united f...
euobserver.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
#Climatechange disasters disproportionately affect persons with disabilities, as tragically illustrated by instances during floods and heatwaves where people with disabilities faced increased mortality and severe challenges in evacuations.
euobserver.com/health-and-s...
euobserver.com/health-and-s...
A global survey found that 8 out of 10 people in Mexico perceive #climatechange affecting their community, making it the middle-income nation with the highest awareness. Droughts were the primary concern for 79% of respondents, followed by high temperatures.
noticiasambientales.com/environment-...
noticiasambientales.com/environment-...
Climate change in Mexico: 8 out of 10 people perceive the effects locally more frequently - Noticias Ambientales
In Mexico, eight out of ten people claim that climate change is affecting their community, positioning the country as the middle-income nation with the
noticiasambientales.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A global survey found that 8 out of 10 people in Mexico perceive #climatechange affecting their community, making it the middle-income nation with the highest awareness. Droughts were the primary concern for 79% of respondents, followed by high temperatures.
noticiasambientales.com/environment-...
noticiasambientales.com/environment-...
Climate Change Theatre Action staged six outdoor theater productions at Wolfe's Neck Center in Freeport, Maine focused on #climatechange as part of a global initiative where playwrights create short plays. Each production incorporated a climate action element.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/09/c...
Climate change theater inspires audience in Freeport
Six plays performed outside spoke of oysters, orcas and opportunities to combat climate change.
www.pressherald.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Climate Change Theatre Action staged six outdoor theater productions at Wolfe's Neck Center in Freeport, Maine focused on #climatechange as part of a global initiative where playwrights create short plays. Each production incorporated a climate action element.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pope Leo XIV has urged leaders at the #COP30 #climatechange conference in Belém, Brazil, to set aside self-interests and accelerate global action to mitigate suffering caused by rising global temperatures, emphasizing the "human face of the climate crisis."
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
Pope calls for courage, consensus as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil
The U.N. meeting in the Amazon runs Nov. 10-21. It comes a decade after the Paris Agreement, a historic deal where for the first time nearly 200 countries committed to reducing heat-trapping greenhous...
www.ncronline.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pope Leo XIV has urged leaders at the #COP30 #climatechange conference in Belém, Brazil, to set aside self-interests and accelerate global action to mitigate suffering caused by rising global temperatures, emphasizing the "human face of the climate crisis."
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
Yale Climate Connections has called out Joe Rogan's podcast for spreading climate misinformation and featuring fringe contrarians like Richard Lindzen and William Happer who have a history of promoting #climatechange myths.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Yale Climate Connections has called out Joe Rogan's podcast for spreading climate misinformation and featuring fringe contrarians like Richard Lindzen and William Happer who have a history of promoting #climatechange myths.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
Bill Gates has committed to donating US$1.4 billion over four years to help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia adapt to #climatechange and become more resilient.
financialpost.com/news/bill-ga...
financialpost.com/news/bill-ga...
Bill Gates donates US$1.4 billion to help farmers adapt to climate change
Bill Gates is pouring money into helping small-scale farmers adapt to climate change and address a gap in funding for production. Read more.
financialpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bill Gates has committed to donating US$1.4 billion over four years to help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia adapt to #climatechange and become more resilient.
financialpost.com/news/bill-ga...
financialpost.com/news/bill-ga...
Over 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists have gained access to UN climate summits, and participated in negotiations where nations are commit to emission reduction policies, in the past four years.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Over 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists have gained access to UN climate summits, and participated in negotiations where nations are commit to emission reduction policies, in the past four years.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe are using death rituals to help people comprehend the vast and abstract loss of the world's melting glaciers by organizing funerals, for glaciers and creating a temporary glacier graveyard with ice headstones.
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/fun...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/fun...
People are having funerals for the world's melting glaciers. Could it mobilize further climate action?
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members — and giving them the memorials they deserve.
www.goodgoodgood.co
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe are using death rituals to help people comprehend the vast and abstract loss of the world's melting glaciers by organizing funerals, for glaciers and creating a temporary glacier graveyard with ice headstones.
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/fun...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/fun...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at #COP30: "Climate change has caused more than 20,000 deaths in Spain in the last five years."
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Sánchez, speaking from COP30: "Climate change has caused 20,000 deaths in Spain in five years"
The Spanish president calls for early elections in the Valencian Community to "break with the denialism" of the PP and Vox parties.
en.ara.cat
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at #COP30: "Climate change has caused more than 20,000 deaths in Spain in the last five years."
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While the Trump administration will not send high-level representatives to the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil, over 100 US state and local leaders are attending to showcase their climate initiatives and commitments.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away
Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil with president’s team expected to send no representatives
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
While the Trump administration will not send high-level representatives to the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil, over 100 US state and local leaders are attending to showcase their climate initiatives and commitments.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that 2025 is projected to be the second or third warmest year on record, continuing an unprecedented streak of high global temperatures.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Report shows 'unprecedented' trend of global temperature rising
According to the report, the past 11 years, 2015 to 2025 have been the 11 warmest individual years in the 176-year observational record.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that 2025 is projected to be the second or third warmest year on record, continuing an unprecedented streak of high global temperatures.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Headlines suggesting Bill Gates has abandoned or backtracked on #climatechange are based on a misreading of a memo he wrote, which clarified that while climate change will have serious consequences, it will not lead to humanity's demise.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
ANALYSIS | Did Bill Gates really say we don't need to address climate change? | CBC Climate Change News
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been in the news of late, with claims that he has changed his stance on climate change, following a memo he posted on his website. But is that re...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Headlines suggesting Bill Gates has abandoned or backtracked on #climatechange are based on a misreading of a memo he wrote, which clarified that while climate change will have serious consequences, it will not lead to humanity's demise.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
UN Secretary General António Guterres declared the failure to limit global heating to 1.5°C a "moral failure and deadly negligence" at the #COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
UN Secretary General António Guterres declared the failure to limit global heating to 1.5°C a "moral failure and deadly negligence" at the #COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. In the past 85 years, the amount of water vapor moving through Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 12%
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Rising global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. In the past 85 years, the amount of water vapor moving through Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 12%
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Research from the University of North Carolina shows that small, often overlooked ponds in the tropical Andes' páramo ecosystem are emitting surprisingly large amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Tiny, overlooked ponds in the Andes may play an outsized role in climate change
Small mountain ponds high in the tropical Andes may be playing an outsized role in global climate change, according to new research led by scientists at the University of North Carolina.
phys.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Research from the University of North Carolina shows that small, often overlooked ponds in the tropical Andes' páramo ecosystem are emitting surprisingly large amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services have issued an urgent call for "urgent, courageous action" on #climatechange by world leaders at the #COP30 conference in Brazil.
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
USCCB and CRS Urgently Ask World Leaders to Address Climate Change at COP30
"As all of us are impacted, so must we all be responsible for addressing this global challenge."...
www.usccb.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services have issued an urgent call for "urgent, courageous action" on #climatechange by world leaders at the #COP30 conference in Brazil.
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
The Paris Agreement, signed in December 2015 by nearly 200 countries, aimed to mitigate the consequences of #climatechange by limiting global temperature increases to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, though exceeding this target is now considered inevitable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What is the Paris climate agreement and why does 1.5C matter?
The 2015 pact is at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Paris Agreement, signed in December 2015 by nearly 200 countries, aimed to mitigate the consequences of #climatechange by limiting global temperature increases to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, though exceeding this target is now considered inevitable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Charles Thistlethwaite
Monarchs need milkweed. Bees need flowers. Solar fields can provide both – while generating renewable power. 🌞🦋🐝
Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy » Yale Climate Connections
By planting wildflowers instead of grass, developers are creating habitat for bees, butterflies, and birds.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Monarchs need milkweed. Bees need flowers. Solar fields can provide both – while generating renewable power. 🌞🦋🐝